Improvement in cotton-presses



UNITED STATES PATENT Ormes.

N. I. LILLY, OF SELMA, ALABAMA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-PRESSES.

Speclieation forming part of Letters Patent No. 23,180, dated March 8, 1859.

' To all whom `it may con/cern..-

Beit known that I, NATrrANrnL I. LTLLY, of Selma, in the county of Dallas and State of Alabama, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Cotton-Presses; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming part ofV this specification, in the several figures ot' which similar characters of reference denote.

In the drawings, B B are the boxes, swinging on trnnnions for the purpose of filling, the pressing action taking place in a horizontal direction.

F Ff are the followers, connected by a bar, A, carrying a rack, R, which, meshing with the pinion P on shaft S, effects the operation of the press. Y

Above the bar A and parallel therewith is a shaft, C, held in bearings c a and turned by a lever, Z. Upon this bar are opposite ratchets, o' r'. Held against this shaft by the gravity of the weight w is a catch, d, hung in bar A on' a pin, fi, as seen in Fig. 3. As the follower moves into a box, the catch d will slip along the ratchet, and at any stoppage hold the fol-- lower.V At the termination of the operation the catch holds until the bale is tied. Then by a movement of the lever l shaft C is turned, releasing the ratchet from the catch, and bringing the other ratchet within the action of said catch, which, being held against it by the weight w, acts inthe same manner as the rack is moved in the other direction on a bale conipressed in the other box.

What I claim, land desire to secure by Letters Patent,` isl The combina-tion of the boxes B B', bar A, and followers F F, with the shaft C, having the opposite ratchets thereon, and the swin'g- 

